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I’ve had the privilege of engaging with exceptional lawyers from associate to senior equity partner levels within the echelons of corporate law. Having met thousands of such excellent lawyers in my career and moderated countless recruitment processes, I’ve gleaned exactly what separates the exceptional from the merely competent as business, legal, and strategic advisors. Here,
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That urban, rural spend on food is falling shows rising incomes. But consumption growth is lagging GDP growth India’s economic data has a modular design. Many population sample surveys are carried out to get a closer look at specific areas such as consumption. Based on that, macro measures such as GDP and consumer price index
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As nonprofits grow, innovation tends to take a backseat. Here’s how they can foster a culture of experimentation in their work. The social sector comprises nonprofits, funders, practitioners, and other entities that are trying to solve some of the most complex challenges of our time, including poverty, social justice, climate change, and educational inequality. For
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As a group of farmer unions from Punjab march towards Delhi once again, they are braced for barricades, barbed wire, water cannons and tear-gas. Their demand for a legally guaranteed Minimum Support Price (MSP) for all crops amps up a familiar policy drone: a long-standing hum of discontent that views the protestors as lone beneficiaries
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India’s online skill gaming is a sunrise sector, its user base next only to China. But the ping-pong between the industry and the government refuses to end, the sector continues to trigger breaking headlines. So let me discuss some pointers here. The online gaming segment has grown at a 28 percent CAGR between FY 20
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There is data available which suggests that very high proportion of corporate private sector business output in India is controlled by Owner / Promoter families. This could be one of the largest percentages in the World where private sector business is permitted / encouraged for output creation. The issue is why is this so? After
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As expected, the repo rate has been kept intact at 6.5 percent for close to a year with the status quo in the current monetary policy review. Its stance remains focused on withdrawing accommodation to ensure that inflation progressively aligns with the target while supporting growth. RBI is resolute about its target to bring down
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It took 5000+ years to go from invention of the wheel to the bicycle. Another 70 years to gas-powered cars and 100+ more to the space shuttle. Hundreds died in “discovering” these steps forward. Now imagine the wheel ITSELF being able to “learn” from varied sources – travels, observing birds etc. then “remember” and not
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We are aware that the Finance Minister read her Budget Speech and presented the Budget papers in Parliament on February 1, 2024. It was an Interim Budget with no major Financial initiatives or new measures being announced. In fact, over the last 6-7 years the current Central Government has made no major changes in
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FM’s right on investment in sunrise sectors. But that has a fallout on job market Trends in Indian economy’s investment pattern have sparked debate. FM, in a post-budget interview to TOI, said public focus has been on traditional sectors while investment has flowed into sunrise areas such as AI and materials research. IP, an investment
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